Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities”, Plomin et al 2013

  • “The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence”, Krapohl et al 2014

  • “Estimating the Inbreeding Depression on Cognitive Behavior: A Population Based Study of Child Cohort”, Fareed & Afzal2014

• Engineering:

  - ["Growth, efficiency, and yield of commercial broilers from 1957, 1978, and 2005"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988556/), Zuidhof et al 2014 ([media](https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/2/6875031/chickens-breeding-farming-boilers-giant "Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since the 1950s"))
  - ["Korea's Sooam Biotech Is the World's First Animal Cloning Factory"](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-22/koreas-sooam-biotech-is-the-worlds-first-animal-cloning-factory)

Politics/religion:

• “Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia”

• “The Hollow Men II: Some reflections on Westminster and Whitehall dysfunction”, Dominic Cummings

• “In Front of Your Nose”, Orwell1946

• “Nothing in Moderation” (Worth remembering in discussions of the Middle East that even in the USA, the masses are deeply illiberal, pro-statist, against rights, and extremist.)

• Newton and alchemy

• “I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup”

• “An Examination of Stereotype Threat Effects on Girls’ Mathematics Performance”, Ganley et al 2013

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data”, Fanelli2009

• “In half of the [placebo-controlled] studies, the results provide evidence against continued use of the investigated surgical procedures.” (media)

• “How to Make More Published Research True”, Ioannidis2014

• “Khan Academy: machine learning → measurable learning”

• “Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics”, Yudkowsky2013 (discussion)

• Survivorship bias

• Writing math papers

• “Against optimism about social science”

• Classification through compression: PAQClass

• “How often does it happen that the oldest person alive dies?”

• “Is long-term calorie restriction in humans worth it?” (preliminary CALERIE results)

• “learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games” (paper)

• How often does correlation=causality?

  • “Randomized versus historical controls for clinical trials”, Sacks et al 1982

  • “The Adequacy of Comparison Group Designs for Evaluations of Employment-Related Programs”, Fraker & Maynard1987

  • “Choosing between randomized and non-randomised studies: a systematic review”, Britton et al 1998

  • “A systematic review of comparisons of effect sizes derived from randomized and non-randomised studies”, MacLehose et al 2000

  • “Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials (Cochrane Methodology Review)”, Odgaard-Jensen et al 2011

  • “A weight of evidence approach to causal inference”, Swaen & van Amelsvoort2009 (circular reasoning & how not to do causal inference)

Psychology/biology:

• “Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?”, Hambrick et al 2014

• “Decision Making Following a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: An Integrative Review”, Choi et al 2012 (connection to embryo selection)

• “Do We Believe Everything We’re Told?”

• “The Acquired Immune System: A Vantage from Beneath”, Hedrick2004 (immune systems as parasites)

• The Pursuit of Noninvasive Glucose Blood Tests: “Hunting the Deceitful Turkey”, John Smith

• Fertility and intelligence

Technology:

• “The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation” (WP)

• “Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums”

• Advanced factory manufacturing in America

• “A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene”

• “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0”

• “Carding Forums, Ponzi Schemes and Law Enforcement: A background on Evolution Marketplace”, by the_avid

• “Fusion Power by Magnetic Confinement Program Plan”, Dean1976/1998

• Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling

• “We need to get a lot better at imagining the future”

• “2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future”

• Successful tech companies’ business models reviewed

Economics:

• “Dirty medicine”

• Peak scientist

• “Slippery Business: The trade in adulterated olive oil”

• “The Industrial Revolution: Past and Future” (Lucas on the Great Divergence, economic growth, the Asian miracles, and redistributionism.)

• “Of Frightened Horses and Autonomous Vehicles: Tort Law and its Assimilation of Innovations”, Graham2012

• “Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk”, Moore & Christin2013 (see also the followup Moore et al 2016)

• NASHX

• “Love, luck and destiny: the world according to a Mumbai matriarch”

• “Bacon: Why America’s Favorite Food Mania Happened”

• “Nowhere is safe in EVE Online as Goonswarm suicide-bombs galactic trade hub” (shades of Eurisko)

• “Currin Trading—Ambition, Deception, Honor, Redemption: The story of the biggest heist in Eve’s history”

• “When Korea’s E-Sports was at the Brink of Death”

• “Google’s Lost Social Network” (exit, voice, and loyalty)

• Obsolete occupations: breaker boy, crossing sweeper, dog whipper

• Old Economy Steven

Philosophy:

• “Why Did why the lucky stiff Quit? …or, is this time well spent?”

• Wrongful life

• “The Wish Never to Have Been Born”, Cavan1932

• “Newtonian Ethics”

Books

Nonfiction:

• Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, Gleeson-White2012 (review)

• Fascinating Mathematical People, ed Albers2011 (review)

Fiction:

• Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (“The Empty Box and The Zeroth Maria”) (review)

Film/TV

Anime:

• Kill la Kill

Music

Touhou:

• “恋色マスタースパーク (Love-Colored Master Spark)” (霧雨 魔理沙; Charisma Lash Type-M {C86}) [orchestral]

• “感情の摩天楼 ～ Cosmic Mind” (聖 白蓮; Charisma Lash Type-M {C86}) [orchestral]

• “少女さとり ～3rd eye” (古明地 さとり; Charisma Lash Type-M {C86}) [orchestral]

• “百鬼夏祭” (狐の工作室; 夏風の音 {C86}) [acoustic/jazz?]

• “天空を駆ける風の都” (狐の工作室; 夏風の音 {C86}) [acoustic]

• “Skydiver” (Babbe feat. kuroTenshi; SUNSHINE EP {2014-08-16}) [house]

• “Beat of Summer” (Babbe feat. Kasuka; SUNSHINE EP {2014-08-16}) [house]

• “月光跡” (柊秀雪 feat. Atori; MT22 {C86}) [Rock]

• “An cailin ar an tine” (Escarmew; MT22 {C86}) [Celtic]

• “Fires of Hokkai” (Jun.A; Cradle2 {C77}) [electronic]

Doujin:

• “The Strong Peanuts” (Takahiro Eguchi + Tomohiko Togashi; ‘AD:HOUSE 3’ {C86}) [instrumental]

• “Sajou” (doriko feat. Hanatan; PRIMROSE FLOWER VOICE {2013}) [rock]

• “ロリババアに恋をした” (HoneyWorks feat. Sana; Suki na Hito. {C86}) [Jpop]

• “清恋 ～ベルティネの夜の夢～” (Drop feat. 葉月ゆら; Eclipse Parade {C86}) [Jpop]

Vocaloid:

• “NICE MATCHING!” (miki; M@SATOSHI; 銀杏色D-i-s-k {VM23}) [electronic]

• “shallow moon” (Rin; 曼荼羅P; selbstmord {2014}) [vocal]

• “チョコレートサンデー” (Miku; 空海月; MIKUHOP LP {2014}) [Hip-hop]

• “Yokkora sex” (96Neko; memoReal {2012}) [rock]